Brits Spend Billions On University Degrees They Never Use
Almost two-thirds of Brits don't use their university degree, according to new research. A study of 2,000 graduates found 64 per cent felt their degree was not relevant to their current role, with a quarter of respondents in job roles that are completely different to the degree they completed. With the average graduate leaving university with £13,292 in debt overall, the astronomical sum can be estimated at 65 billion squandered on degrees not used! Barinder Hothi, Co-founder of The Knowledge Academy – one...
EgyptAir Hijack Could Be A Deluded Romantic
Cyprus state TV has released new information on the EgyptAir hijack, claiming the hijacker could be a deluded romantic. Flight MS181, an Airbus A320 carrying 81 passengers from Alexandria to Cairo, was hijacked and forced to divert to Larnaca airport in Cyprus this morning. The man who hijacked the plane claimed to be wearing an explosives belt, but allowed all passengers to leave the aircraft when it landed in Larnaca. According to local sources, the hijacker could just be looking to deliver a...
EgyptAir Airliner Hijacked
An EgyptAir airliner has been hijacked by a man claiming to be wearing an explosives belt. According to local sources Flight MS181, an Airbus A320 carrying 81 passengers from Alexandria to Cairo, was hijacked and forced to divert to Larnaca airport in Cyprus. BREAKING Airbus A320-20 flight #MS181 from Cairo has been hijacked https://t.co/tqFPgUKUbI pic.twitter.com/1vcw3qpSMX — AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) March 29, 2016 No demands have been made by those in control of the plane and negotiations have resulted in the release of...
Review: Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain
Review by Michael Ewins/@E_Film_Blog Over guttural bass and wobbly drum loops spill a barrage of localized sprechgesang, and from the other side of the pit, stomping boots and tributes of spit. This is what a Sleaford Mods gig sounds like - intoxicated, caustic, and very funny. But a Sleaford Mods gig is also what punk looks like in 2016, and it's not what you expect - disco lights, a laptop, and one bloke in a polo shirt flailing around as...
Coal & gas investment globally less than half of clean energy
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor 2015 was a record year for renewables, which also saw investment by developing countries overtake that of the developed world. It was the first time that renewable energy made up a majority of all the new electricity generation capacity under construction around the globe. This can only bring hope that we can begin to successfully tackle the dangers of climate change. $286bn (£200bn) was invested globally in renewable energy in 2015, more than the previous...
VIDEO – Teachers’ heckle Nicky Morgan over academy plans
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Nicky Morgan was the first Tory Education Secretary to address the NASUWT since 1997, but it all went wrong, which seems to be the way things go for Morgan at the moment. She was viciously heckled by teachers angry at the Conservative plans for academy schools. Teachers shouted out “rubbish” at her as she tried to sell them he plans for the academisation of state schools. This follows on from the Chancellor, who announced in...
Brexit campaign employs EU migrants to rally support
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In a move that is beyond parody, a call centre for the Brexit campaign has hired four non-British phone bank works, according to the Guardian. The call centre, overseen by party donor Arron Banks, has taken on EU migrants, while at the same time telling the public that low-skilled foreign workers “deprive British citizens of jobs.” Leave.EU has recruited four phone bank workers from EU countries, including Slovakia. The call centre was established to raise...
Drug Tests For Welfare? Watch This Space
West Virginia is the latest US state to introduce drug testing for welfare claimants. As one lawmaker put it, no-one living off his tax dollars should be 'laying around on welfare and drugs'. Florida recently required all welfare claimants to submit to drug testing, though the courts later ruled the law unconstitutional. Forcing the poor and needy to prove they aren't drug abusers is so popular with right-wing voters politicians are willing to risk legal backlash by enforcing invasive and...
Why Have We Stopped Going to Live Music Venues?
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) New research conducted by audio, video and lighting specialists AVonics has shown that live music venues may be becoming less appealing to the British public The survey discovered that 63% of people in the UK hadn’t visited a live music venue in the past 12 months. People in the 25 to 34-year-old category were more likely to have attended a live music show, with 46% saying that they had been to a concert in the past year. But...